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William Blake (1757-1827)

A selective list of articles on the English Romantic poet William Blake, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites.

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Introduction

"William Blake." Poetry Foundation. Ed. Catherine Halley. Good, encyclopedia-type introduction to Blake, his biography, themes, and techniques, with samples of his poems.

"William Blake." Academy of American Poets. A biography and sample poems.

Punter, David. "William Blake." 17 July, 2001. Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to William Blake, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription. Songs of Innocence (1789); Songs of Experience (1794); America, A Prophecy (1793).

"William Blake." Exploringing Poetry (Gale). A short biography.

Literary Criticism

Baulch, David M. "The Sublime of the Bible." Romanticism on the Net 3 (1996). Blake's Milton and how Blake's notion of the sublime differed from conventional ideas.

- - -. A review of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation, by Julia M. Wright. Romanticism on the Net 36-37 (2004-2005).

- - -. A review of William Blake, by Victor N. Paananen. Romanticism on the Net 8 (1997).

Bidney, Martin. "A song of innocence and of experience: rewriting Blake in Brodkey's 'Piping Down the Valleys Wild.'" Studies in Short Fiction (1994) [and Harold Brodkey].

Castellano, Katey. "'The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom': Alternative Economies of Excess in Blake's Continental Prophecies." Papers on Language and Literature (2006).

Eaves, Morris, et al. "Once Only Imagined." Romantic Circles, January 2003. An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the future of Blake studies.

Eliot, T.S. "Blake." From Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1922.

Essick, Robert and Joseph Viscomi. "An Inquiry into Blake's Method of Color Printing." Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly 35 (2001/2002).

Freeman, Kathryn. A review of Stranger from Paradise: a Biography of William Blake, by G.F. Bentley. Criticism (2002).

Ferber, Michael. A review of William Blake: the Creation of the Songs: from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, by Michael Phillips. Criticism (2001).

Fulford, Tim. "A Romantic technologist and Britain's Little Black Boys." [chimney sweep]. Wordsworth Circle (2002).

Gilpin, G. H. "William Blake and the world's body of science." Studies in Romanticism (2004).

Goldberg, Brian. "Byron, Blake, and Heaven," in Romanticism on the Net 27 (2002).

Goslee, Nancy Moore. "'Soul' in Blake's writing: redeeming the word." Wordsworth Circle (2002).

Hagstrum, Jean H. A review of Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine. Modern Philology 68 (1970). First page of article only.

Höltgen, Karl Josef. "William Blake and the Emblem Tradition" in EESE (2002).

Hutchings, Kevin. "Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion." Romantic Circles, Romanticism and Ecology, November 2001.

Longacre, Jeffrey. A review of William Blake and the Body, by Tristanne J. Connolly. College Literature (2004).

O'Neill, Michael. A review of William Blake, New Casebooks, by David Punter, editor. Romanticism on the Net 7 (1997). Part of a round-up review.

Pfau, Thomas. "Bringing About the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." Romantic Circles, Romanticism and Conspiracy, July 2004.

Plotnitsky, Arkady. "Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake’s Minute Particulars." Romantic Circles, Romanticism and Complexity, March 2001.

Prather, Russell. "William Blake and the problem of progression." Studies in Romanticism (2007) [The Four Zoas, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell].

Raffel, Burton. "Translation: processes and attitudes." Literary Review (2002) ["The Tyger"].

Reilly, Susan P. "Blake's Poetics of Sound in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." Reilly contends that by combining many genres and choosing genres which originate in sound or speech, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell merges William Blake's Higher Criticism with an emphasis on oral culture. Romanticism on the Net 16 (1999).

Schierenbeck, Daniel. "'Sublime labours': aesthetics and political economy in Blake's Jerusalem." Studies in Romanticism (2007).

Scott, Grant. A review of William Blake in a Newtonian World: Essays on Literature as Art and Science, by Stuart Peterfreund. Criticism (1999).

Sheasby, Ronald E. From "Dual Reality: Echoes of Blake's 'The Tiger' in Cullen's poem 'Heritage.'" College Language Association Journal 39 (1995); at Modern American Poetry. [Influence of William Blake on African-American poet Countee Cullen].

Simpson, Michael. "Who didn't kill Blake's fly: moral law and the rule of grammar in Songs of Experience." Style (1996).

Web sites & bibliography

Romanticism on the Net. Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. An international, peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to British Romantic studies, an impressive scholarly enterprise that has been making essays freely available since 1996.

Romantic Circles. Eds. Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, and Carl Stahmer. "A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture." An innovative publication on topics in Romanticism.

The Wordworth Circle. Ed. Marilyn Gaull. Information about subscribing.

The William Blake Archive. Eds. Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi. A major hypermedia archive of Blake's poetry and designs.

The Blake Digital Text Project. Ed. Nelson Hilton. Summary of critical interpretations of Blake's "The Lamb" from leading literary critics, with bibliography. Interpretations of "The Tyger" (removed).

"Tyger of Wrath." National Gallery of Victoria, 1999. A web exhibition of Blake's art, with 176 plates and a commentary on his artistic techniques.

"Digital Designs on Blake." Ed. Ron Broglio. Romantic Circles, January 2005. Articles by Ron Broglio, David M. Baulch, Marcel O'Gorman, Nelson Hilton, Joseph Byrne, Adam Komisaruk, Steven Guynup, and Fred Yee on how new media representation of William Blake's work provides a heuristic for inquiry into Blake's texts.

"A Romantic Natural History." Ed. Ashton Nichols. The relationships between literary works and natural history in the century before Darwin, with articles on Blake and other Romantics.

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